Impossible Desires - 9780822335139
Un libro in lingua di Gayatri Gopinath edito da Duke Univ Pr, 2005
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Gopinath juxtaposes diverse texts to indicate the range of oppositional practices, subjectivities, and visions of collectivity that fall outside not only mainstream narratives of diaspora, colonialism, and nationalism but also most projects of liberal feminism and gay and lesbian politics and theory. She considers British Asian music of the 1990s alongside alternative media and cultural practices. Among the fictional works she discusses are V. S. Naipaul's classic novel A House for Mr. Biswas, Ismat Chughtai's short story “The Quilt,” Monica Ali's Brick Lane, Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy, and Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night. Analyzing films including Deepa Mehta's controversial Fire and Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding, she pays particular attention to how South Asian diasporic feminist filmmakers have reworked Bollywood's strategies of queer representation and to what is lost or gained in this process of translation. Gopinath's readings are dazzling, and her theoretical framework transformative and far-reaching.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Impossible Desires
- Sottotitolo: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Gayatri Gopinath
- Editore: Duke Univ Pr
- Collana: Duke Univ Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Maggio '05
- Genere: SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Argomenti : Gays in popular culture South Asians Foreign countries Social conditions South Asians in literature
- Pagine: 247
- Dimensioni mm: 228 x 152 x 19
- ISBN-10: 0822335131
- EAN-13: 9780822335139